Snark Attack

Updated 10:00 pm, Friday, September 22, 2006

I was on an airplane to Washington, D.C., this week and noticed three congressmen were on the same flight. All were comfortable in business class. I didn't think anything of that fact -- until I saw Sen. Patty Murray on my return flight. She was flying coach.

-- Mark Trahant

U.S. tours of duty in the Iraq quagmire are being extended and the Pentagon says it may have to use more National Guard troops to shore up sagging ranks. Meanwhile, they're 3,000 Iraqi troops short in the battle for Baghdad because they don't want to leave their home regions. "Due to the distance," says Maj. Gen. James Thurman, they "did not want to travel to Baghdad." Huh? Stand up, Iraq, or we'll stand down.

Gov. Chris Gregoire named Spokane's Kristianne Blake, a sister of Bill Gates, as a UW regent, easing the board's Seattle tilt. New Democratic plan: Erase the Cascade curtain one Gates family member at a time.